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Michael Harris

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Do Androids Prove Theorems in Their Sleep?  (slighly longer version of article
to appear in Circles Disturbed, A. Doxiadis and B. Mazur, eds.):  pdf

"Why Mathematics?" You May Ask (in The Princeton Companion to Mathematics, T. Gowers et al, eds. pp. 966-977):  pdf
Next-to-last draft, including many footnotes deleted from the published version.

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Some chapters from my forthcoming book, Mathematics Without Apologies.

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PRESENTATIONS

Avatars:  mathematical conjectures in the light of (re)incarnation
Quicktime movie of PowerPoint presentation at the conference "Two Streams in the Philosophy of Mathematics:  Rival Conceptions of Mathematical Proof"
    University of Hertfordshire, July 1-3, 2009 (long before the author had heard anything about Cameron's film!)
Small version (for slow connections)

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BOOK REVIEWS

REVIEW OF Fashionable Nonsense,  A. Sokal and J. Bricmont (written early 1999)

REVIEW OF Mathematics and the Roots of Postmodern Theory, V. Tasi'c (published in Notices of the AMS,  August 2003)

REVIEW OF Everything and More, D. F. Wallace (published in Notices of the AMS, June-July 2004)

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Adresse

Michael Harris

Centre de Mathématiques de Jussieu
Université Paris 7 Denis Diderot
Case Postale 7012
2, place Jussieu
F-75251 PARIS CEDEX 05
Tel: +33 01 44 27 86 78
E-mail: harris@math.jussieu.fr
URL: http://people.math.jussieu.fr/~harris/

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